Mildura 1956 Murray River Floods
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 10 ก.ย. 2012
- The 1956 Murray River flood involved the rising of waters in the Murray River and flooding in three states of Australia, including the towns of Murray Bridge, Mildura, Nangiloc, Red Cliffs, Renmark,[1] Wentworth and many others. Some areas were flooded up to 100 km from the natural flow of the river. The flood was and still is considered the biggest flood in the recorded history of the River Murray and described as "the greatest catastrophe in South Australia's history".[3]
What a ripper flash back of some of our Australian History. Enjoyed every bit of it, thank you! Shared 👏😎♥️🇦🇺🕊️
I was script writer for this DVD with a wonderful production company Apricot Film & Video, Di and Graham.
i had to upload this for my dad, he kept lending out his dvd copies and wouldn't get them back.
That's great Wayne, it lets more people see the amazing floods of 1956. I believe the DVD's are no longer available. Thanks, Mike
@mikeO’Reilly beautifully written
Being three in 56 and my parents had a shack just south of the Blanchetown bridge in 74 after which my father relocated their shack. I leant to swim in the Murray river, as my father had a working holiday for years, as he use to relieve the Ferryman at Walker's Flat. As a kid I loved my holidays on the Murray river.
Thanks for sharing Wayne. Great doco
The little grey Massey Ferguson " ........... and go for ever our neighbor is still using his today 2021 .
Looks like that history is about to repeat itself , Oct 2022.
Better buy an electric car 😂
Still got a grey fergie still runs like a dream
And they still keep building on low lands. Note the red cliffs early in the video, formed by river flow.......
I was 10 years old in 1956 and I remember we had lots of rain that year.
1956 is very much river lore. Wentworth holds a Ferguson rally every 5 years. The 50th anniversary rally was especially large; I was there.
In Fotherby Park, a Fergie is mounted on a pole, at the height reached by the flood, as a memorial.
just south of swan hill are expecting levels like the 1956 floods in about a weeks time
thanks i realy enjoyed this video
OMG just showed up in my feed Loved it 👍
My father was visiting at the time.
I never forget seeing the flood marker on a tree at Echuca, you have look up and up to see it. Well above all the other flood heights. I didn't know about the 1931 flood. I know the 1893 flood of Brisbane was the heighest there. Something we have to live with.
10:05 WOW good job fellas!!
Wow. Great early footage. Cheers.
The flooding we currently have at the moment here in Mildura won’t get this bad (hopefully) but it’s definitely getting higher every day. We won’t have a riverfront much longer :(
Hi Emily, we’re down stream in Mannum SA. They’re telling us the worst is yet to come. Best of luck to you. Stay safe. 🙏
Since then we have had 1973,1974,1975, 1993 and now 2022. Floods are not that rare. Mooroopna's power went out by going under water. And pumps did fail. Drains did flow in reverse. The pump to the sewage plant did fail. How nothing ever changes.
They ain't rare but nearly 30 years since the last one is rare.
@@kindbluey what about the flooding 2010/2011 Murray river flooded Murrabit & surrounding areas,
I forgot to add this is tremendous footage of historical value. There was even a rare white Roo and no it was not a giant rabbit.
Was this ever turned into a movie by any chance??
Hi Wayne
Are you Related to Bob & Nellie Pollock?
I’ll ask dad when he gets back from over seas next week.
Haha, wow Mr Miller, He was teaching when I was at school, and my mother back in the day too!
this was a video my dad brought back from Mildura, where he grew up.
Holy shit i just got this on my recommended. It's flooding heaps in mildura at the moment
It’s gotten over 60k in views in the last 3 weeks.
oh my:)
Why did the locals go to all the effort to save their towns when all they had to do was sit back and blame the government like they did/do in Lismore ,in a town that floods continuously as it’s extremely low lying. Why are all the expensive homes and hospital situated on Lismore heights for some reason?
Most Government owned buildings are built on hills away from flooding. The general public come second!
Cash grab, they develop on flood prone land for cash I reckon
classic
love it memories of Sunraysia
12:09 That Albino Kangaroo though, wow
The little grey Fergie workhorse
grey fergie always rememeber that on our uncles farm in vic
all long gone now the farm was left to a granson & not shared among us kids
he sold it all to a sub dividers he lost all of $ on the sharemarket
handed it the mils over to a guy he knew nothing about shares the dumbass sold our 1870s hertige farm all gone within 1 year of sale , greed never wins
If we can use the water I can imagine the rich of Australia.
Interesting to get a bit of a historical perspective on the current Murray flooding of 2022-23. Not a good idea to implicitly editorialise by liking comments from dimwits who think this video has a bearing on contemporary climate science though.
Before climate change was invoked to blame on all natural disasters.
And 1870 was even higher................Not much man made climate change in them days.....
So why did they build in an inland sea bowl?
The rivers were the transport corridor for all produce, especially wool, by paddlesteamer from the stations and farms to the railheads (Bourke, Echuca, Mildura, Morgan) and thence to the coastal cities. So the river port towns were built on the river banks, on high country if possible, but often by necessity on the floodplain.
The floodplains were agricultual areas, from the 1880s, for rice, cotton, wine, citrus and other fruit and vegetables precisely because their soils had built up from past floods and could be easily irrigated from the rivers.
@@jeannettehope670 Thank you, Jeannette, for your informative post.
Yeah the freak of nature isn’t nature
Every " catastrophic " weather event is the worst SINCE ! It's happened before we just don't learn quick enough ! And the greens have too much say. 😎👍
Oh they had climate change back then as well😮
Yes but the difference now is we are getting back to back floods.
This just popped up on my feed. Perhaps Adam Bandt and greens should learn their history and know that floods are a common occurrence in Australia instead of blaming the manmade grobble warming scam.
The problem is building nuclear and toxic waste in the first place. Notice which areas they protected first. This was to try to prevent the waste entering the waters.
Also Rotary used working train lines to move sand instead of people and food.
Hindsight is everything
They already knew
So you can’t blame the Government now unless they repeat the same mistakes
Best to focus on saving the future
We have not got time for fingerpionting
Perhaps you should do some research
Tell us you’re dumb as f**k without saying you’re dumb as f**k
Yep, floods have been happening forever. The worst flood recorded in Echuca was 96.20 metres in 1870. Unfortunately, human habitat on flood plains ( and coastal) is the real problem.. Your comment however, appears to have a big gap, missing important information. You’ve omitted to acknowledge ‘frequency of floods’ which is a key factor, the evidence that today’s extreme flooding is correlated to warming oceans.. as per climate science…….
Your comment misses the fact that only three years ago (2019) Daniel Andrews ruled out building any dams because climate change meant they wouldn’t fill. As per the informed climate science though that has now changed. Before that Flannery said dams wouldn’t fill, a couple of years later they did. The climate science is always predictive if you listen long enough it predicts everything with hindsight.
9:20
Wow the propaganda
When they tell you nuclear testing is going great
Is this global warming?
Yeah, it’s all the baby boomers doing. God damn breeding war generation should have been working on fixing the plumbing Instead of cleaning their baby maker pipes.
@@One21Jiggawatts what drug are you on? If it was not for baby boomers YOU would not be here .
@@John-ri4uy LOL. I thought you’d take it as a joke.
@@One21Jiggawatts read it wrong apologies.
@@John-ri4uy I thought the war generation cleaning their pipes instead of fixing the plumbing would get a laugh.